HISD live blog: budget, redistricting

The Houston school board will hold a non-voting workshop at 7:30 a.m. Thursday. On the agenda: the budget — the clock is ticking for HISD to adopt a budget by the end of the fiscal year in June — and school board redistricting. Follow here or on twitter (@e_mellon) for live updates.

Please post comments to the blog and not within the live blog feature.

UPDATE (8:10 a.m.): Please follow on twitter at e_mellon. My updates aren’t posting on the blog for some reason.

UPDATE (8:36 a.m.): The live blog appears to be working now. You can still follow on twitter or here on the blog.

6 Responses

I don’t understand why the school board is discussing holding kids back if they’re not reading at level. Isn’t that supposed to be the whole point of TAKS? To verify the kids are reading at grade level? And if they’re not, they get held back, right? Isn’t that how it works?

If not, then either (1) the TAKS tests are not a good measure of what kids know or (2) someone’s promoting kids that shouldn’t be promoted. Maybe the school board needs to talk about THAT instead of debate what is already school policy.

Bobadilla’s judgment can’t be trusted. Not only does he propose starting high schools before teenagers are even awake, his staff pulled a crossing guard from our elementary school without notifying either the school or the parents, leaving kids to cross a 4-lane busy road without escort. They repeatedly did not reply to emails and calls. It took EIGHT WEEKS for HISD to respond and replace the guard. Bobadilla is at the top of this chain.

How can Grier even think about spending money on any new programs, right now? We were told that “State of Texas is facing its largest budget shortfall since WWII” were forced to lay off teachers and cut programs. We were told to go to Austin and fight for more money. WHY?!?! We are not going to continue to be Grier’s pawns to help him and his pet projects.

Thanks to Ericka’s great reporting, we see the HISD board in action. Unfortunately, today we probably saw how the board really gets along. Kudos for Ms. Eastman for standing up to Paula Harris who is the president and supposed to run meetings, not stifle debate. The board is so used to cutting people off in mid-sentence they do it to one another. For more commentary see houstonisdwatch.com

Psssst….hey Terry the Dallas job is opening up so maybe you and your cronies need to call the movers and get to stepping and leave HISD! Because when you and your idiots are done, redistricting won’t undo the mess you and this board have brought upon HISD!!!!! Maybe if you go, then the rest will follow!?!?!? We can only hope and pray!!!